Texas · Nonprofit
Greater Houston Partnership Foundation
Greater Houston Partnership Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,539,085 to it, the largest being TING TSUNG & WEI FONG CHAO FOUNDATION ($1,085,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Greater Houston Partnership Foundation does
Mission
Support the economic development in the greater houston area with attention to areas in houston that have been economically depressed with historically low capital investment and job growth. The foundation is organized and operated to develop and implement strategic plans for the economic development of the greater houston region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The foundation participates in charitable economic development within economically depressed areas of the houston region to encourage recruitment and retention of jobs. The foundation works to target job creation and new investment in these areas that historically have low capital investment and job growth. By working with existing companies and promoting the houston region to prospective employers, the foundation contributes to increase job creation and investments that prevent and fight community deterioration.
$2,776,428 spentof which $2,776,428 as grants$96 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,776,428.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $2.5M to $7.7M (+209%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
101% of Greater Houston Partnership Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $195k → $765k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $283k from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Houston). These are real filings, and they are not money Greater Houston Partnership Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Greater Houston Partnership Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Greater Houston Partnership Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
47% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Greater Houston Partnership Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 87% · 2021 55% · 2022 40% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of Greater Houston Partnership Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of Greater Houston Partnership Foundation's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Greater Houston Partnership Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Greater Houston Partnership Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Greater Houston Partnership Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Greater Houston Partnership Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Greater Houston Partnership Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Greater Houston Partnership Foundation?
- Greater Houston Partnership Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,539,085 to it, the largest being TING TSUNG & WEI FONG CHAO FOUNDATION ($1,085,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Greater Houston Partnership Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $4,539,085 in grants to Greater Houston Partnership Foundation, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Greater Houston Partnership Foundation?
- TING TSUNG & WEI FONG CHAO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,085,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Greater Houston Partnership Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing